Qing Qianxue

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Qing Qianxue (卿千雪)
Real Name	Mo Qianqing 133 334
Alias(es)	Qian Xue; “Little Xue-Xue,” Chu Youning’s teasing nickname 47 321
Gender	Male 18
Affiliation	Yu Kingdom’s imperial court; Shadow Pavilion 47 302
Occupation/Role	National Preceptor, also called State Preceptor and Grand Imperial Preceptor; master of the Shadow Pavilion; later Chu Youning’s prince consort 18 39 384
Family	A deceased mother and a younger sister 324 364
Spouse	Chu Youning, formerly known as Jiang Yourning 214 384
Status	Alive; cured of his cold poison; married to Chu Youning 302 384
First Appearance	Chapter 8, advising Xie Ciyan about fate 8

Appearance

Qing Qianxue initially has snow-white hair, exceptionally fine skin, and a cold, distant bearing. After his poison is cured, his hair returns to black and his expression becomes noticeably warmer 18 302.

• Face and eyes: Exquisite features and ink-dark eyes; during illness, his face is pale and bloodless, sometimes acquiring an unhealthy flush after coughing 130 133.
• Build: Broad shoulders and a narrow waist 39.
• Usual presentation: Wears a mask and receives visitors from behind a large screen, keeping his face concealed even in formal audiences 38.
• Before recovery: Commonly wears his white hair loose down his back, secured with a jade hairpin, and wraps himself in a heavy cloak against the cold 18 174.
• After recovery: Emerges without a mask, wearing smoke-gray robes and a jade crown that gathers his restored black hair 302.
• Later disguise: Returns to court with white hair and an unsteady gait despite being cured. The System identifies his gait as an act and considers the hair color probably medicine-induced 314.

Personality

Qing Qianxue’s public reputation is aloof, restrained, and untouched by worldly concerns. His attendants initially find his interest in Jiang Yourning extraordinary because he ordinarily avoids meddling in other people’s affairs. He can nevertheless be severe: suspicions about her produce killing intent before he chooses investigation rather than immediate violence 20 39 66.

Around Yourning, his composure develops into dry humor and deliberate teasing. He frightens her while pretending not to notice her invisibility, bargains over the insults she delivered while feverish, and tricks her into thinking she has another nosebleed. Her increasingly confident flirtation can reverse this dynamic and leave him visibly flustered 53 131 241 318.

His affection is expressed through practical care: arranging protection, providing food, keeping Youning warm, and listening without demanding that she explain herself. After their betrothal, he respects her wish to postpone marriage for six years. This patience coexists with jealousy—he quietly discourages eligible handsome men from approaching her 334 349 380.

Abilities & Skills

Divination

Qing Qianxue can glimpse heavenly secrets and interpret fate stars, marriage prospects, and approaching events. His readings reveal that his seemingly certain death has acquired an unexplained possibility of survival 8 32 51.

• Fate readings: Determines that Jiang Yourning has no discernible fate star and that her future cannot be resolved through divination 39.
• Changing destinies: Recognizes that Jiang Wanrong’s marriage fate has changed from his earlier prediction 57.
• Practical forecasting: Correctly predicts when heavy rain will stop and confirms that the chain beneath Azure Cloud Temple’s sundial belongs to the secret passage 174 178.
• Spiritual consequences: Explains that killing the Seventh Prince before his destined death exposes Youning to lost merit and heavenly retribution 259.
• Limits: Cannot identify who concealed heaven’s workings to make that killing possible. He also distinguishes his work from medicine and refuses to treat ordinary illness as a divination problem 38 259.

Hearing Chu Youning’s Thoughts

He hears Jiang Yourning’s inner voice during their early encounters and confirms that she is not speaking aloud. Comparing his perceptions with Qian Miao’s responses helps him recognize the phenomenon 18 38 39.

• Investigation: Her thoughts connect her to the mysterious medicine seller and reveal information about threats surrounding him 38 40.
• Recognition: Her inner voice alerts him to her presence even while she is concealed beneath an Invisibility Cloak 53 155.
• Restricted information: He identifies “system” as a term he cannot hear clearly in her thoughts 337.
• Disclosure barrier: He explains that an unseen force briefly made anyone attempting to warn her forget what they intended to say. The System proposes the World Will as the cause 349.
• Later change: After her thoughts cease leaking to the wider group, he suspects that she can control when they are heard 353.

Martial Arts and Swordsmanship

His frail appearance conceals substantial combat ability. Once recovered, his reflexes allow him to evade Youning’s attacks even when she uses Light as a Swallow 348.

• Swordplay: Performs an elaborate sword dance with Snow Song, moving over an icy pool and using the resulting spray to scatter flower petals 320.
• Concealed weapons: Readies silver needles during his confrontation with Su Fuling 335.
• Training: Defeats every Shadow Pavilion member in successive duels before continuing to practice swordplay through the night 381.
• Limitation: His worsening poison repeatedly leaves him trembling, coughing, and physically weakened before treatment 124 241 247.

Intelligence and Strategic Command

As Shadow Pavilion master, Qing Qianxue directs surveillance, investigations, hidden guards, and coordinated searches 32 39 155.

• Orders an investigation into Yourning’s background and tracks her visits to the Everpeace Pawnshop 39 40.
• Arranges retaliation after assassins from the Duke’s Estate target her, including preparing evidence for discovery 66.
• Coordinates the inspection and removal of hidden military supplies associated with Zheng Wanba 155 156.
• Reveals an intercepted message using a medicinal solution and interprets the Flourishing Kingdom’s concealed script 339.
• Proposes using the enemy’s mistaken belief that Chu Wenzong is gravely ill to prepare Yu’s border defenses 339.

Other Skills

• Painting: Paints winter plum blossoms while receiving an intelligence report 32.
• Board games: Regularly plays chess and becomes absorbed in a match against Youning’s mechanical wooden dog, ultimately losing 323 380.
• Cooking: Prepares lunch while Youning makes his birthday cake 324.

Cold Poison and Recovery

His condition is initially called Cold Affliction and later identified as cold poison. The cure is associated with Cold Silver Frost Dew. Attacks cause extreme cold, frost, trembling, severe pain, and blood containing ice 18 247 295 303.

Condition / Treatment	Chapter	Details
Severe early attack	18 19	Barely conscious and desperate for warmth, he carries the invisible Yourning home. A medicine-filled underground hot-spring pool suppresses the affliction.
Increasing attack frequency	124	Notices that the intervals between bouts are becoming shorter and orders another medicinal bath.
Premature flare-up after a rescue	127 130	His condition worsens after going to the City God Temple to retrieve Yourning.
Blazing Sun Herb treatment	247	Youning purchases the herb with ten thousand taels of his gold and adds it to his bath. His frost melts, he expels blood with ice shards, and he regains consciousness.
Antidote delivered	288	Youning supplies the completed medicine, describing a nine-pill regimen taken three times daily. She advises undisturbed recovery with Ye Tianque present.
First verified improvement	295 296	Following a painful treatment night, Ye Tianque finds his body warmer and his pulse steadier than it has been in years.
Complete detoxification	302	After the final agonizing night, Ye confirms the poison is entirely cleared. Qing’s hair returns to black, and he expels blue translucent fragments alongside blood ice.
Recovery of strength	314 334	Still needs nourishment shortly after detoxification; by his meeting with Su Fuling, his body has all but recovered.

Equipment, Weapons & Items

• Snow Song: His former longsword, with an ornate scabbard, carved hilt, and a tassel containing two hollow golden bells. He retrieves it for Youning’s private sword-dance performance 320.
• Jade sword hairpins: A unique pair. He gives one to Yourning as a tangible guarantee of his trust; it grants authority over his followers, access to his resources, and entry to the Shadow Pavilion’s private treasury 133 288 293.
• Sleeve dart / sleeve crossbow: A concealed weapon he gives Yourning. Its projectile emerging from apparently empty space helps him locate her during the City God Temple rescue 127 131.
• Masks: Normally conceal his face; after recovery, he also wears a mask given to him by Youning 38 314.
• Hand warmer: A gift from Yourning that he takes wherever he goes while still suffering from the poison 208.
• Mechanical wooden dog: Youning’s gift, activated by turning its tail three times. It speaks electronically and moves its paw to play a board game 323.
• Private treasury: Contains 1.5 million taels’ worth of gold items when Youning enters using his sword hairpin 293.

Background / History

Uncertain Fate and First Encounters

Qing Qianxue is already advising Xie Ciyan about destiny before meeting Jiang Yourning. Yourning recognizes him as an important character destined to die early in the novels she has read; later, she recalls that he has roughly a year left. His own divination detects an unknown presence that may offer a path to survival 8 18 32 99.

Their first encounter occurs when the invisible Yourning falls onto his carriage while escaping pursuers. During a severe cold attack, he brings her inside and carries her home for warmth. She escapes the next morning, while his attendants’ inability to see her leaves them unable to explain the feminine scent in his room 18 20 21.

From Suspicion to Protection

When Lin Xiangyin brings her daughter for divination, Qing discovers both Yourning’s unknowable fate and his ability to hear her thoughts. He initially investigates her as a possible threat, then begins connecting her presence to the new hope in his own fate 38 39.

At the empress’s birthday celebration, he tells Chu Wenzong that several people can hear Yourning’s thoughts and argues that she may represent a chance of survival for both himself and Yu Kingdom. He requests a Kneeling Exemption Token for her and later protects her against assassins from the Duke’s Estate 51 66.

His involvement becomes increasingly personal. He joins Yourning and her companions in observing the princes’ confrontation, helps her descend from a wall, and has Qian Miao stage an attack so she can rescue County Lady Baojin. He later tracks down the collapsed Yourning despite her invisibility and carries her home at a cost to his own health 85 86 127 130.

The Cure Agreement

Qing offers ten thousand taels of gold to establish a friendship with Yourning, saying that she reminds him of his younger sister. Later, he explains that his fading fate star acquired a spark of life that he believes came from her 99 132.

Yourning initially quotes 1.5 million taels of gold for a cure: one million for medicine and half a million as her fee. Qing agrees and pledges his life and loyalty if she succeeds. When she demands safeguards beyond an oath, he gives her his authority-bearing hairpin and permits her to add poison to the antidote as leverage, provided she supplies the corresponding counter-antidote on time 132 133.

The later quoted antidote price is one million taels. During the wait, Qing secretly funds donations and good deeds in Youning’s name to lessen the heavenly retribution following her killing of the Seventh Prince. She eventually delivers the antidote herself, and his treatment succeeds 259 288 302.

Court Affairs and Su Fuling

Alongside protecting Youning, Qing helps investigate Azure Cloud Temple, secure its military cache, locate the secret passage, and manage preparations against the Zheng rebellion. During the fighting at the Jiang Residence, he surveys the trap from a rooftop before Youning helps him escape danger 155 156 178 180 181.

After recovering, he proactively seeks out Su Fuling to settle their grievances before she can involve Youning. Su recognizes him as Mo Qianqing. Learning about her manipulation by a system makes him fear that Youning’s own system could control or harm her; he privately asks about her origins because he wants to know how to protect her 334 338 339.

Betrothal and Marriage

Qing and Youning grow closer through teasing, shared meals, gifts, and visits to his mother’s shrine. When Youning becomes distressed by discovering that others have heard her thoughts, he reassures her that she is loved independently of her usefulness 323 324 349.

Youning asks him to seek her brother’s permission to marry her when she comes of age. Their betrothal lasts six years because he waits for her to feel ready rather than pressuring her into marriage 353 380.

Once she agrees, he orders the residence renovated and sends the additional betrothal gifts he has accumulated. He personally dives at sea for the eastern pearl that adorns her bridal phoenix crown. Their wedding takes place on the Imperial Palace’s Grand Terrace, where they offer incense, exchange bows, and serve tea to the imperial elders 381 383 384.

Relationships

• Chu Youning / Jiang Yourning — Rescuer, benefactor, romantic partner, and eventual wife. Their bond begins with mistrust and a paid friendship, becomes a cure-and-protection agreement, and culminates in marriage after a six-year betrothal 99 133 380 384.
• Chu Wenzong — His sovereign and later brother-in-law. The emperor grants him exceptional ceremonial treatment and a seat beside himself; Qing advises him on Yourning’s significance and foreign threats 47 51 336 386.
• Xie Ciyan — Longstanding friend and frequent companion. Xie worries about his illness, encourages him to attend polo, and later needles him about his prolonged unmarried status 8 100 238 380.
• Qian Miao — Trusted attendant and operative who carries out investigations and staged interventions. An enthusiastic supporter of Qing’s romance, he also repeatedly earns punishment for overstepping 39 86 324 381.
• Qian Yan — Loyal guard, investigator, and messenger. He urges Yourning to treat Qing better because of his suffering and becomes deeply grateful after she cures him 133 302.
• Qian Rui — Trusted subordinate assigned to attend Youning personally; she also notices Qing’s longing for Youning during his treatment 301 349.
• Ye Tianque — Divine Healer who manages his medicinal care, monitors the antidote treatment, and confirms his complete recovery 178 296 302.
• Su Fuling — A figure connected to his past grievances who recognizes his true identity. Her system’s attempts at manipulation prompt his concern for Youning’s safety 334 335 338 339.
• Younger sister — Becomes absorbed in power and strategy after meeting Su Fuling and serves as her personal adviser; Qing ruefully admits that Su now has more influence over her than he does 364.
• Late mother — Honored through a spirit tablet at his residence. He invites Youning to offer incense with him and plans to return to the Flourishing Kingdom to pay respects 323 324.

Notable Quotes

“Perhaps she is not only my chance of survival, but the Yu Kingdom’s as well.” 51

“I felt that Ningning needed me, so I came.” 348

“Don’t worry... none of what you fear will happen. I’ll protect you, so you can keep loving this world.” 349